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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean

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