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Bertolt Brecht

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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software

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