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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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