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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong

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