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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

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