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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.

Bertolt Brecht

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing

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