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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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
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
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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