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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

Bertolt Brecht

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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