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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Bertolt Brecht

Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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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Art Discovery Reality
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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

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