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

Bertolt Brecht

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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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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Art Embrace Hands War
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War

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

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