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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
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

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