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In the contradiction lies the hope.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows

In the contradiction lies the hope.

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