Boy Meets Girl, So What?
BERTOLT BRECHTThe worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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