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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

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