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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

First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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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Moving People Trouble

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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