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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

What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

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