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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

Bertolt Brecht

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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

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