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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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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About Country Live Place
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military

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