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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
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
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
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

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