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People who understand everything get no stories.

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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

People who understand everything get no stories.

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