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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
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
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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