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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

Bertolt Brecht

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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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

What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

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