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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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 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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

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