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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat

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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