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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

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