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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost

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