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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!

Bertolt Brecht

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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Men Struggle Years
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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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Alabama Bye Moon
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!

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