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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning

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