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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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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Art Discovery Reality
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life

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