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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People 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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle

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