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

Bertolt Brecht

Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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