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Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
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 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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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