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

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two

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

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