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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

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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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