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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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