As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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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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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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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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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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