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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.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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 man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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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