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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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