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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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