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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
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
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

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