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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.

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