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Quote by George Orwell
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human being

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – 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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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

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O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution

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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. – Abraham Meyerson

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. – Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. – Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

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My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core. – Vin Diesel

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