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Quote by George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the sam

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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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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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell

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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. – Corrie Ten Boom

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As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial. – Ryan Seacrest

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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And its what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. – Ice T

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes

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Acting is all about big hair and funny props… All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. – Harold Ramis

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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. – Tacitus

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all thats good. – George Washington

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