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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

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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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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