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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.

Bertolt Brecht

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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
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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater

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