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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

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

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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