Quote by George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the presen

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell

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War
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell

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Future
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In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell

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Age
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. – Robert Smithson

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Future

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if its hard. Invest in the spirit. – Jonathan Sacks

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Future

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. – J. G. Ballard

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Future

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. – Peter Drucker

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Future

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If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. – Tupac Shakur

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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while were alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke

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The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. – Vera Nazarian

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