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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

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 has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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