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

Bertolt Brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
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
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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