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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

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