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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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 rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

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