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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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

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