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First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

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 human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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

First the grub, then the morals.

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