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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.

Bertolt Brecht

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special

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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