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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

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
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
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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

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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