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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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