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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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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Criminals Doe Lying
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
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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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible

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