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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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

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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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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