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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

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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