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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.

Bertolt Brecht

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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 has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running

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