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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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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Crush Men Powerful
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing

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