"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."
-Bertolt Brecht
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"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.“
-Bertolt Brecht
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"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."
-Bertolt Brecht
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"War is like love it always finds a way."
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"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn."
-Bertolt Brecht
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"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
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"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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