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George Orwell, 1984
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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De La Rochefoucauld.
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
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H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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Henry Fielding
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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Johann von Goethe
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Abraham Lincoln
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
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German Proverb
Never give advice unless asked.
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Carl Lotus Becker
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
Girls just want to have funds.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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