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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

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