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George Orwell

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TIM BALDWIN If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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SKIP PIGHETTI My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come h...
EARVIN MAGIC JOHNSON I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
ARAVIND ADIGA Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every leve...
EILEEN CADDY Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every leve...
EILEEN CADDY For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule...
THURGOOD MARSHALL The man you saw out here crossing your kids every day, that was Jim. He came to work every day with ...
JEFF WATERS Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
PROVERB Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h...
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CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had tr...
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WILLIAM LYON PHELPS The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...
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CRAIG HAASE Today was the day to win again, Javlei held his axe in hand he had killed many people with it he did...
CHARON LLOYD-ROBERTS I thought he was OK, but he stopped breathing and they had to put him on a respirator. When I was ab...
CODY COLVIN Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri...
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE He had half their points in every quarter (in the last meeting). The emphasis was not to stop him, b...
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GIUSEPPE MAZZINI George Burley was very keen to keep him as he regards him as an integral part of his side.
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AMY LICHTENHAN Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
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GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of per...
ROBIN SHARMA He was going to church every Sunday. He was going to start Bible classes in his house.
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ERIC THOMAS He had anticipated every question. And he knew how to answer them without ruffling any feathers.
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RICK WARREN Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will ...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will ...
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THOMAS WOLFE Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
BIBLE Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our ...
ELLEN G. WHITE Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me--
GEORGE ORWELL George Morris did the best job of uniting us as a team. Every teammate we had, the camaraderie was u...
LAURA KRAUT I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT No sooner than they got here his father passed away and he had to go straight from school and work e...
GAIL GALLAGHER England expects that every man will do his duty.
HORATIO NELSON The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When George spotted the pinup girl of his fondest fantasies across that cheesy bar, he had no idea w...
KRISTEN CASEY Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems ever...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every...
ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.
NOORILHUDA The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which comm...
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GEORGE ORWELL We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we be...
GEORGE ORWELL Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improve...
GEORGE ORWELL Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
GEORGE ORWELL Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which i...
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
GEORGE ORWELL All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
GEORGE ORWELL Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
GEORGE ORWELL If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
GEORGE ORWELL Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t...
GEORGE ORWELL The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...
GEORGE ORWELL For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story...
GEORGE ORWELL She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed
GEORGE ORWELL The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
GEORGE ORWELL Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.
GEORGE ORWELL Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their b...
GEORGE ORWELL People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...
GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...
GEORGE ORWELL The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and inte...
GEORGE ORWELL Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...
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