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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
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
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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