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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht

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
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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