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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste

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