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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace

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