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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.

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded

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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