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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

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