Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHTWith 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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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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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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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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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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