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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War

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