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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

Bertolt Brecht

Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

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