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When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL
I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL
Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS
It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI
We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN
The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY