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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost

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