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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Bertolt Brecht

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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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Fall Rain Summer
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software

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