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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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

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