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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

Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men

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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