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Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining

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