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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

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