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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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