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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

Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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 storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names

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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