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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?

Bertolt Brecht

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

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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