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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom

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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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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