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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.

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
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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Abuse Kissing Race
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak

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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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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