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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized 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
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

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