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Bertolt Brecht

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature

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