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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!

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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

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