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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning

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