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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

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