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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

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