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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

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