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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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