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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

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