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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

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles

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