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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

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