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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

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows

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