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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

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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
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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Children Hate Ignorance
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

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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