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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality

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