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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Bertolt Brecht

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 is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

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