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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

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