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Quote by George Orwell
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual worker

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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

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Future
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George Orwell
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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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Fear
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. – George Orwell

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best
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Language
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The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

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Language

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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Language

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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Language

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. – Marcellinus Ammianus

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. – Julian Huxley

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Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together. – Proverb

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You have to learn and keep learning. – Gil Scott-Heron

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That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and its pure, it means that they do too. – Sean Penn

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