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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Bertolt Brecht

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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind

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