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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support

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