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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

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

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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