Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
BERTOLT BRECHTRealist 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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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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