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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear

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