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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.

Bertolt Brecht

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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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