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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
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
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull

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