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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

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise

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