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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Equality
George Orwell

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All animals are equalBut some animals are more equal than others
Uncategorised
George Orwell

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
Freedom
George Orwell

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
Oppression
George Orwell

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Language
George Orwell

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Technology
George Orwell

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
Happiness
George Orwell

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
School
George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Goodness
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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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
Saints
George Orwell

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
Achievement
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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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
Instinct
Sir William Osler

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
Students
Sir William Osler

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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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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.
Cries and Crying
Thomas Otway

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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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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Absence
Ouida

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The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
Improvement
John Ousterhout

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A short absence is the safest.
Absence
Ovid

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
Opportunity
Ovid

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Friends and Friendship
Ovid

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Courage
Ovid

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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
Guilt
Ovid

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