Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
BERTOLT BRECHTEach of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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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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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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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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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.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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