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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Bertolt Brecht

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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People

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