Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHTMixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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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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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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