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

Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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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Government People War
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

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