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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
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
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
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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something

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