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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels

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