Quote by George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a

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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – 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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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. – Vincent Van Gogh

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I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. – Steven Seagal

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A mans worth is no greater than his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius

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