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

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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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