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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation

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