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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

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive

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