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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog

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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