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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
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 headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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