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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

Bertolt Brecht

The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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