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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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

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