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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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