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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

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
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
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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Order Reality Tables
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.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two

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