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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

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined

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