You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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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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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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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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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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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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