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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

Bertolt Brecht

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

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