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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
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

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

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