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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
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
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
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

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