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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

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