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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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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