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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
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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Art Embrace Hands War
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years

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