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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Bertolt Brecht

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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

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