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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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