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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat

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