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

Bertolt Brecht

First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows

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