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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land

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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