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Quote by George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – 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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George Orwell
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell

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Virtue is its own revenge. – E.Y. Harburn

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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. – Robert S. Lynd

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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all. – Richard Dawkins

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