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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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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Desire Reality Understanding
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 fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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