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People who understand everything get no stories.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
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
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace

People who understand everything get no stories.

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