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I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!


George Canning

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PSALM 91:9-11

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GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL