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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear

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