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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something

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