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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

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