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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
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 fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost

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