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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Bertolt Brecht

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

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