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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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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy
But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not
Always spoken the truth in my books? And now
You treat me like a liar! I order you:
Burn me!
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For ordinary men.
Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. 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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Show interest in her goodness, for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
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Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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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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The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to be. It's not we who lord it over things, it seems, but things which lord it over us.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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GALILEO: Truth is born of the times, not of authority. Our ignorance is limitless: let us lop one cubic millimeter off it. Why try to be clever now that we at last have a chance of being just a little less stupid?
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One of the main reasons why the sciences are so poor is that they imagine they are so rich. It isn't their job to throw open the door to infinite wisdom but to put a limit to infinite error.
Galileo speaking
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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.
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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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GALILEO:...Knowledge will become a passion and research an ecstasy.
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BELLARMIN: Wouldn't you also think it possible that the Creator had a better idea of what he was making than those he has created?
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Bertolt Brecht
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Born:
February 10, 1898
Died:
August 14, 1956
(aged 58)
Bio:
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century.
Known for:
The Threepenny Opera (1955)
Mother Courage and Her Children (1941)
The Good Person of Szechwan (1943)
Life of Galileo (1940)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948)
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