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

Bertolt Brecht

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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing

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

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