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Quote by George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell

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power
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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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War
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy

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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you. – Francoise Sagan

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Men

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Today is Valentines Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! – Jay Leno

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Im afraid for all those wholl have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen

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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do. – Roddy Doyle

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I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you. – Jason Ritter

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Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced. – Ethel Merman

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