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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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

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