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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons

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
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

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