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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Right is its own defense.

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Right is its own defense.
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Defense Own
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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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
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating
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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Made Realist
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.

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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Robbing
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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One Stealing
Life is short and so is money.

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Life is short and so is money.
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Cute
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Matters
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 Knives
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Today Triumph

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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