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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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