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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

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