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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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 world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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

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