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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

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
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent

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