When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Eats first, morals after.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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