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George Orwell Quotes

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950

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Walk War Feel Doubt Civilization

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

Jessica Simpson

Myself I Am Me Hands Look Kind

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. And when we uphold the rule of law it provides a powerful alternative to the twisted worldview offered by al-Qa'ida.

John O. Brennan

People Law Tools American Powerful

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

Business History Comfortable Slave

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

Child Own Things Only Like Actions

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

Good School High School You Kind

I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.

Job People Me Tough Reality Want

I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

History Think Rise Sometimes Human

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Saying Literature Worth Trouble Must

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

Important Living Unions Happen Union

Fail again, fail better.

Domhnall Gleeson

Better Fail Again

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.

Character Empathy Evil You Play

Theatre is immediate gratification.

Theatre Immediate Gratification

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