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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
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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Desire Reality Understanding
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

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