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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

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