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

Bertolt Brecht

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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Fall Men Tiles
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
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
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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Condition Example Made Realist
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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

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