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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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 man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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

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