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

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
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
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
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 wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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

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