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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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