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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

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