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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

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