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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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 art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders

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