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

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

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