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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
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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Feelings Historical Theatre
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

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