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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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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