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Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Bertolt Brecht

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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 headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

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