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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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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Art Discovery Reality
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste

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