When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHTAll artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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