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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral

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