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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind

Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

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