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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

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