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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

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