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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

In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War

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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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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