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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
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
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

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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