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Bertolt Brecht

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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men

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