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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

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels

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