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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

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing

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