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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

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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
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
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
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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