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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.

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree

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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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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