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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Bertolt Brecht

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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

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