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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
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
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy

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