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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

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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
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
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles

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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