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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – George Orwell

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – 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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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it! – Marie Corelli

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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it cant be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort. – Calvin Coolidge

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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. – Wole Soyinka

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes. – Hannah Arendt

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