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

Bertolt Brecht

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 right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like

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

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