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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

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