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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
Catholicism
George Orwell

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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Politicians and Politics
George Orwell

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Progress
George Orwell

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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
Civilization
George Orwell

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To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
Common Sense
George Orwell

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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Survival
George Orwell

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WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Uncategorised
George Orwell

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Food and Eating
George Orwell

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There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
Rules
Charles Osgood

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
Love
Samuel Osgood

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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
Senses
Sir William Osler

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Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Speakers and Speaking
Sir William Osler

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Medicine
Sir William Osler

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Medicine
Sir William Osler

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The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Doctors
Sir William Osler

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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Ignorance
Sir William Osler

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
Instinct
Sir William Osler

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Life and Living
Sir William Osler

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
Goals
Herbert A. Otto

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition
Thomas Otway

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Otway

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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Honesty
Thomas Otway

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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Gossip
Ouida

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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Familiarity
Ouida

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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Hope
Ouida

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun