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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Bertolt Brecht

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

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