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Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

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