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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

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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

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