He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Realist 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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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 human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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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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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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