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Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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