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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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