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Right is its own defense.

Bertolt Brecht

The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

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