Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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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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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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