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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

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
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
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men

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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