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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
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
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible

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