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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation

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