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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning

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