Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
The rainNever falls upwards.When the woundStops hurtingWhat hurts isThe scar.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
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A person is a process, one that leads to death...
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The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord’s voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. Its really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.
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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
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Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.
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Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.
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I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.
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What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.
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The rainNever falls upwards.When the woundStops hurtingWhat hurts isThe scar.
