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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

Bertolt Brecht

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War

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