Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
BERTOLT BRECHTImpact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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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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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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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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