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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Bertolt Brecht

Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

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