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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?

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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise

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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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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