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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

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