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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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 world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

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