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True Quotes by George Orwell
- It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a…
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
- All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
- Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding…
- If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.
- Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in…
- Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here.…
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood