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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

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