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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
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

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