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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

Bertolt Brecht

I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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