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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.

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak

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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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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