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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
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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Belief Men Running
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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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Men Struggle Years
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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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Desire Reality Understanding
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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Moving People Trouble
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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