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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

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 world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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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Fall Rain Summer
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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