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In the contradiction lies the hope.

Bertolt Brecht

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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

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