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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

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