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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

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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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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