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

Bertolt Brecht

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

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