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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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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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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