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First the pork chops, then morality

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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

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