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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.

Bertolt Brecht

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War

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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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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