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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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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Latter Stupidity Workers
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

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