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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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

The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

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