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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

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

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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