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

Bertolt Brecht

I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking

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