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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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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Men Real Screen Voice
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting

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