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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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