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Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Bertolt Brecht

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 fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible

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