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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
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
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking

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