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Right is its own defense.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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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Able Strong Theatre
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

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