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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

But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings

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