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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

Bertolt Brecht

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
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

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