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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like

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