From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, 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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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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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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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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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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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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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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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But something’s missing.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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