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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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

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