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

Bertolt Brecht

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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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

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