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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

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work

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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