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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

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