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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bertolt Brecht

Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War

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