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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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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Fool Government Splits
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

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