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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

Bertolt Brecht

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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

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