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

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing

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