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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
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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Fall Rain Summer
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak

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