aphor.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Copyright (c) 2022 Mark Wolff <wolff.mark.b@gmail.com>
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"""

formulas = {
    'equivalencies': [
        ["The real AAA is BBB.", 2],
		["AAA wouldn't be AAA without BBB.", 2],
		["The only AAA is BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is BBB made visible.", 2],
		["AAA is the poor person's BBB.", 2],
		["Little AAAs make big BBBs.", 2],
		["AAA is the shortest path from BBB to CCC.", 3],
		["AAA is the continuation of BBB by other means.", 2],
		["AAA is the father of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the mother of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the brother of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the sister of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the beginning of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the end of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is a caricature of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is an outline of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the enemy of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the test of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the proof of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the rule of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is the recourse of BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is BBB of CCC.", 3],
		["AAA of BBB is CCC of DDD.", 4],
		["AAA of BBB is BBB of AAA.", 2],
		["AAA of BBB is AAA of CCC.", 3],
		["AAA of BBB is BBB of CCC.", 3]
    ],
    'parallelisms': [
		["Far from AAA, far from BBB.", 2],
		["With no AAA there is no BBB.", 2],
		["A time for AAA, a time for BBB.", 2],
		["As goes AAA, so goes BBB.", 2],
		["Those who ignore AAA ignore BBB.", 2],
		["Those who desire AAA desire BBB.", 2],
		["Neither AAA without BBB nor BBB without AAA.", 2]
    ],
    'strong_oppo': [ # these express parallelisms with a strong opposition
		["AAA is easy, BBB is difficult.", 2],
		["AAA is an amateur, BBB is a pro.", 2],
		["AAA is a sickness and BBB is the cure.", 2],
		["AAA is poetry, BBB is prose.", 2],
		["AAA touches the soul and BBB the body.", 2],
		["AAA is on the surface, BBB is at the core.", 2],
		["AAA dies when BBB is born.", 2],
		["AAA adds to our misery while BBB increases our joy.", 2],
		["AAA brings people together, BBB tears them apart.", 2],
		["God sends AAA, the devil sends BBB.", 2],
		["People love AAA and fear BBB.", 2],
		["You can easily do without AAA but not without BBB.", 2],
		["You can hide AAA but not BBB.", 2],
		["Everyone complains about AAA, no one complains about BBB.", 2],
		["You can easily go from AAA to BBB but you will not come back from BBB to AAA.", 2],
		["Hating AAA is nothing but the love of BBB.", 2],
		["People can put up with AAA but not with BBB.", 2],
		["You must not do with AAA what you can do with BBB.", 2]
    ],
    'mild_oppo': [ # these express parallelisms with a mild opposition
		["AAA has only one form, BBB has many.", 2],
		["AAA is given to everyone, BBB only to some.", 2],
		["A bit of AAA leads away from BBB but a lot brings it closer.", 2],
		["AAA is rare, BBB is even rarer.", 2],
		["AAA has no secrets that BBB cannot reveal.", 2],
		["AAA corrects our faults that BBB cannot correct.", 2],
		["When AAA leaves us, BBB is not far away.", 2],
		["AAA is born with BBB but AAA does not always die with BBB.", 2],
		["AAA will save us from BBB but who will save us from AAA?", 2],
		["AAA makes philosophers, BBB makes heroes, CCC makes sages.", 3],
		["AAA and BBB have their limits, CCC is inexhaustible.", 3],
		["AAA sometimes saves what BBB has lost.", 2]
    ],
    'comparisons': [
		["AAA and BBB, same struggle.", 2],
		["AAA makes up for the defect in BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is not in AAA but in BBB.", 2],
		["AAA deceives us more often than BBB.", 2],
		["AAA does not protect us from the stupidity of BBB.", 2],
		["The way to AAA passes through BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is far from BBB.", 2],
		["Nothing pleases AAA more than BBB.", 2],
		["You must not let go of AAA for BBB.", 2],
		["You can't really escape AAA except through BBB.", 2],
		["AAA softens BBB.", 2],
		["AAA will never abolish BBB.", 2],
		["AAA will never get rid of BBB.", 2],
		["What you will find the least of in AAA is BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is to BBB what BBB is to CCC.", 3],
		["AAA is more opposed to BBB than to CCC.", 3],
		["Happiness is in AAA not BBB.", 2],
		["AAA is structured like BBB.", 2],
		["In AAA there is more BBB than CCC.", 3],
		["There is not less of AAA in BBB than of CCC in DDD.", 4]
    ]
}