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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

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