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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

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
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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