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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World

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