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

Bertolt Brecht

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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain

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