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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People

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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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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