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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

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

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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