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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

Bertolt Brecht

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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.
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Declaring Running War
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

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