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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon

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