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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

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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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