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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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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Art Discovery Reality
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible

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