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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
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
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

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