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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

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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

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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