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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.

Bertolt Brecht

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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 headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters

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