Love is the wish to give, not to receive. - Bertolt Brecht

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I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

Bertolt Brecht

Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

Give, Giving, Love Is, Receive, Wish

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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

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If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

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Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another?

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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Alone, Law, Literature, Naked, Prevented

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

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Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.

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Rose Macaulay

Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. . . . every shop is a choked mass of humanity. . . nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

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Janet Fitch

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

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Jodie Foster

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

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Mary Roach

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

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