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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.

Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War

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