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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

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain

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