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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. …

Bertolt Brecht

What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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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Crush Men Powerful
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots

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 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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