Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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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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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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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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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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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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