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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Bertolt Brecht

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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying 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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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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Majority Purpose Shoulders
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust

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