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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

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People

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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