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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.

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