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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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. – George Orwell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – 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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And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past – except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. – Clifford D. Simak

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People always want to pin yesterdays news on you, as opposed to asking you what youre going to do for the future, what youre doing today. – Corey Feldman

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So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated well just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. Weve also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. – Robert Lanza

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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make? – Yuri Milner

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Derived from this celebrated society for propagating the faith, the name propaganda is applied in modern political language as a term of reproach to secret associations for the spread of opinions and principles which are viewed by most governments with horror and aversion. – W.T. Brande

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As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. – Bhagavad Gita

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