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

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
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

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

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