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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
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
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

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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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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