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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

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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 must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust

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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