Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
BERTOLT BRECHTWriters can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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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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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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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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