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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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