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BERTOLT BRECHTThe storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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