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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Bertolt Brecht

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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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 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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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