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

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust

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