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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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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Abuse Kissing Race
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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