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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

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