What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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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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