Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
BERTOLT BRECHTWho has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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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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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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First the pork chops, then morality
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The 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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Grub first, then ethics.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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