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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation

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