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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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