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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Art Discovery Reality
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost

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