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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

Bertolt Brecht

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost

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