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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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 more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined

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