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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble

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