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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

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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

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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