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Bertolt Brecht

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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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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Finest Spoil
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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