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First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind

First the grub, then the morals.

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