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

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles

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

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