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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

Bertolt Brecht

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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names

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