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

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing

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