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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World

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