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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

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