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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

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