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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

Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature

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