Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

Everybody Knows

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Topic

Things are getting worse

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Everybody Knows

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Singer-songwriter Musician

From

Canada

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cohen, Leonard and Sharon Robinson. "Everybody Knows." Performed by Leonard Cohen. I'm Your Man. Columbia Records, 1988.

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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Václav Havel

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Topic
Modern life

Author

Václav Havel
Medium
Letter
Language
Czech
Time
1983 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Havel, Vaclav. Letter to Olga Havlova. 5 Oct. 1981.