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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

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
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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

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

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