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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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 have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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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