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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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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 headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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

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