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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

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory

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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