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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle

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