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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Bertolt Brecht

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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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 fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too

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