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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

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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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Government Party People
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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Condition Example Made Realist
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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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Change Nothing Reality Representation
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

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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