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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
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
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

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