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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War

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