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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

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