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!
BERTOLT BRECHTThere are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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But something’s missing.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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