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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher

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