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

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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
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 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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace

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