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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

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