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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bertolt Brecht

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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing

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