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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

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly

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

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