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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise

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