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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons

Bertolt Brecht

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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