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Quote by George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no differe

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell

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Future
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. – George Orwell

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

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Men
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot

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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but thats just the way it is. – Thom Yorke

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War

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies. – Terry Eagleton

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War

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. – J. B. Priestley

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War

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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss! – Harriet L. Childe Pemberton

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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that youre not and thats what you always reach for in a song. – Leonard Cohen

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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