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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

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years

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