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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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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Art Discovery Reality
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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