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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

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well

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