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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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 storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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

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