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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred

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