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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military

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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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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