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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

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