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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

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
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
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles

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