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Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

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