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

Bertolt Brecht

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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 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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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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Peace Running War
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

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

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