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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

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

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