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Grub first, then ethics.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing

Grub first, then ethics.

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