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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
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
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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