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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People

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