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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

Bertolt Brecht

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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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Light Planning Shining
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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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Art Science Views Work
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain

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