Quote by George Orwell
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democrat

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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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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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. – Plato

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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less. – Robert Trout

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Ive always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. – Hugh Jackman

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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. – Sylvia Browne

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Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. – Henry David Thoreau

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

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People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers. – Eric Schmidt

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