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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Bertolt Brecht

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long

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