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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell

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War
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – George Orwell

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Future
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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good
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Men

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. – Lord Byron

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Men

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. – Chuck Norris

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Men

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls… because they can. – Kim Cattrall

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Men

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Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. – Jean Baudrillard

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Pornography

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics. – Eric Cantona

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Fear

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrows joy is possible only if todays makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. – Andre Gide

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Beauty

A clear conscience is a soft pillow. – Proverb

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