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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Bertolt Brecht

But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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