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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

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.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

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