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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste

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