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A theater without beer is just a museum

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
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak

A theater without beer is just a museum

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