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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instincti

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – 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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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. – George Orwell

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Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. – Estelle Getty

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – Marshall McLuhan

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Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Psalms 64:1 – Bible

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