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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.

Bertolt Brecht

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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
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

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