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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre

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