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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

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