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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
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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About Country Live Place
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose 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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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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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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