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

Bertolt Brecht

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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

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

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