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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
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
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

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