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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

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled

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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