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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

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain

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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