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

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell

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Truth
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – George Orwell

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God
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In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell

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Age
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I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest. – Ron Paul

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Men

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. – Bertrand Russell

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Men

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Men

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. – George Washington

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Men

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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. – Julia Barr

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Family

People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – Jaron Lanier

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Technology

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. – Emile Coue

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Imagination

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. – J. G. Ballard

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Fear