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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing

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