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Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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