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The righteous one has no sense of humor.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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 the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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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Confusion Humanity Nature
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
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 is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance

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