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Only bad generals need heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
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
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
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
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk

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