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

Bertolt Brecht

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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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Alabama Bye Moon
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart

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