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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

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting

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