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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

Bertolt Brecht

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years

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