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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.

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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running 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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War

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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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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