A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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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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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Right is its own defense.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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