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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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
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 mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

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