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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

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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