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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht

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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

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