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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
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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Confusion Humanity Nature
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

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