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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

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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

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