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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

Bertolt Brecht

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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
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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Art Discovery Reality
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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