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| Everything that can be invented, has been invented. |
Charles H. Duell |
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| Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. |
George Orwell |
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| He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. |
George Orwell |
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| For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. |
George Orwell |
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| Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. |
George Orwell |
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| The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. |
George Orwell |
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| The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. |
George Orwell |
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| Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. |
George Orwell |
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| ...Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. |
George Orwell |
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| Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |
George Orwell |
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| It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak. |
George Orwell |
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| Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. |
George Orwell |
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| On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. |
George Orwell |
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| Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. |
George Orwell |
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| Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness. |
George Orwell |
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| People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
George Orwell |
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| To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. |
George Orwell |
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| All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. |
George Orwell |
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| The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. |
George Orwell |
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| Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. |
George Orwell |
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| The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. |
Jacob Getlar Smith |
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| Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. |
Finley Peter Dunne |
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| The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. |
Finley Peter Dunne |
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| Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind. |
Finley Peter Dunne |
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| We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. |
Herman Melville |
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| There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke. |
Herman Melville |
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| We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. |
Herman Melville |
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| It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. |
Herman Melville |
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| Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. |
Herman Melville |
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| A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. |
Herman Melville |
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| Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. |
Herman Melville |
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| The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. |
Norman Mailer |
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| There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. |
Norman Mailer |
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| Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. |
Norman Mailer |
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| People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled. |
Norman Mailer |
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| Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. |
Norman Mailer |
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| Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. |
Norman Mailer |
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| One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. |
Norman Mailer |
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| For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. |
Ethel Barrymore |
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| You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. |
Ethel Barrymore |
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| You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. |
Ethel Barrymore |
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| The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. |
Dan Cook |
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| We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Nurture your mind with great thoughts. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Never complain and never explain. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.' |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| I must follow the people. Am I not their leader |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Assassination has never changed the history of the world. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think... |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Little things affect little minds. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Fear makes us feel our humanity. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Success is the child of audacity. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The secret of success is constancy of purpose. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Ignorance never settles a question. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| A precedent embalms a principle. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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