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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Bertolt Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

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