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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

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