Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Right is its own defense.
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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The fate of man is man.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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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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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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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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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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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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