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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded

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