What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Life is short and so is money.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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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!
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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