The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, 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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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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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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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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