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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

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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

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