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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Bertolt Brecht

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits

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