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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

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
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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 evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering

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