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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning

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