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

Bertolt Brecht

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm

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