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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

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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports

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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