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When you name yourself, you always name another.

Bertolt Brecht

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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking

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