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Eats first, morals after.

Bertolt Brecht

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People

Eats first, morals after.

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