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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.

Bertolt Brecht

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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

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