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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

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