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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning

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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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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