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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

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