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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

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