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A. N. Wilson quote: "It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to..."

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

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A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is, of course, a silly one, but I can give it a silly answer. Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written especially for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover I don’t want anybody else to hear of it. To have a million such readers, unaware of each other’s existence, to be read with passion and never talked about, is the daydream, surely, of every... W. H. Auden
George Orwell quote: "...for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches."
...for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches. George Orwell
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. Alexander Dubcek
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Daisaku Ikeda
At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. Albert Camus
He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you. Margaret Atwood
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I am being accused of all this plastic surgery, which is absolutely not true. Nicolette Sheridan
George Orwell quote: "the mute protest in your own bones"
the mute protest in your own bones George Orwell
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. Larry Ellison
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner. Robert Henri
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. Boris Pasternak
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. Dean Koontz
On the Ning Nang Nong. Where the Cows go Bong! And the Monkeys all say Boo! Theres a Nang Nong Ning. Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo. On the Nong Ning Nang. All the Mice go Clang! And you just cant catch em when they do! So its Ning Nang Nong! Cows go Bong! Nong Nang Ning! Trees go Ping! Nong Ning Nang! The mice go Clang! What a noisy place to belong, Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong! Spike Milligan
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My past is a bit checkered. Kid Rock
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. Frederick Jackson Turner