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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
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
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

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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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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