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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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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell

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Men
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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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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. – Robert H. Schuller

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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. – King Abdullah II

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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. – Tony Blair

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The EU is not a country and its not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. – William Hague

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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but Im going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing. – Hugh Jackman

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Ride the energy of your own unique spirit. – Gabrielle Roth

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To this wonderful page in our countrys history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters. – Giuseppe Garibaldi

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