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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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