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The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables

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