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

Bertolt Brecht

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
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

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