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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

Bertolt Brecht

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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War

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