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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

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

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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