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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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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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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