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Saul Alinsky Quotes: Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
         

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.


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The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.



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