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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

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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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