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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

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
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

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