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!
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Life is short and so is money.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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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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