When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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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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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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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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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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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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