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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

Bertolt Brecht

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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart

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