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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World

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