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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Bertolt Brecht

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men

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