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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork

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