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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bertolt Brecht

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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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Art Discovery Reality
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak

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