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Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

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