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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Bertolt Brecht

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

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