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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

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
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

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