“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
— George Orwell
Author: George Orwell
Category: war
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“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
— George Orwell
Author: George Orwell
Category: war
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“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.”
— Randy Neugebauer
Author: Randy Neugebauer
Category: marriage
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“It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.”
— Corazon Aquino
Author: Corazon Aquino
Category: power
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“My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.”
— Agnes Smedley
Author: Agnes Smedley
Category: sympathy
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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: men
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“I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.”
— Ellie Goulding
Author: Ellie Goulding
Category: music
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“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”
— Tony Campolo
Author: Tony Campolo
Category: religion
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“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”
— Margaret Thatcher
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Category: love
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“People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.”
— Andre Maurois
Author: Andre Maurois
Category: intelligence
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“I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”
— H. G. Wells
Author: H. G. Wells
Category: time
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“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
— Thomas Huxley
Author: Thomas Huxley
Category: science
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