"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."

-- Bertolt Brecht

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“Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!”
“People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.”
“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1923). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920”
“If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Sep 02, 2009
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

Source : An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).
“Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

Source : Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS
“Language is the machine of the poet.”

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