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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good 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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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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Art Discovery Reality
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing

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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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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