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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.

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