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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Bertolt Brecht

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
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
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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

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