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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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

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