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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man 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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.

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