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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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Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. – George Orwell

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War
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George Orwell
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War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell

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War
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George Orwell
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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Its sort of an action flick. You cant be that funny trying to steal diamonds. – Anthony Anderson

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funny

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange. – Simon Mainwaring

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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Letters

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. – Soren Kierkegaard

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