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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.

Bertolt Brecht

A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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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Fall Rain Summer
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand

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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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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