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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom

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