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

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World

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

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