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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering

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