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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Bertolt Brecht

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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands 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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men

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