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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors

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