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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

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork

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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