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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
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
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like

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