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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.

Bertolt Brecht

General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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

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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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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