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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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 more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful

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