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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

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