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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special

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