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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Bertolt Brecht

First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
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
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

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