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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

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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War

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

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