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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men

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