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Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

Bertolt Brecht

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.

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