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

Bertolt Brecht

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men

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

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