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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

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