"ã€€When the leaders speak of peace ã€€The common folk know ã€€That war is coming ã€€When the leaders curse war ã€€The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread ã€€I go to the market where lies are bought ã€€Hopefully ã€€I take up my place among the sellers. ã€€"

-- Bertolt Brecht

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“We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.”
“A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.”
“If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' Ãªtre, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.”

Source : "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.
“To see the world is to judge the judges.”
“When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.”
“And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.”
“I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.”
“The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldnâ€™t look too closely at another personâ€™s pain.”

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