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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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

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