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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust

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