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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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
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
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
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
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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Art Discovery Reality
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

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