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In the contradiction lies the hope.

Bertolt Brecht

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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other

In the contradiction lies the hope.

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