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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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 defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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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