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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

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand

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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