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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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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Acting Men People
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart

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