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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

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