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JOHN BURNS Right now we're running pretty rough, back and forth, we have a lot of loads here and there...I've b...
ERIC JONES Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
ELIE WIESEL People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
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BILL JACKSON It is a lie.
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MIKE RILEY There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off g...
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BILL SCHNEIDER There was a lot of input of the candidates' strengths and weaknesses.
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LAURA LEE There are a handful of citizens who want to delay the decision until Mr. George comes back. But that...
GARY BURKHOLDER All I can do is try the best when I am in there. My goal is to make it a very difficult decision for...
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GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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