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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow

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