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Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

Bertolt Brecht

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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