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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

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