What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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The fate of man is man.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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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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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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