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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing

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