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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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