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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

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

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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