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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

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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
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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land

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