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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

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
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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Desire Reality Understanding
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle

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