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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle

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