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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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