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

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
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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