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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

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