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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
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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