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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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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Crush Men Powerful
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible

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