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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand

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