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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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

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