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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

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