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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

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