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George Orwell
"Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist. "
George Orwell
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Kim Harrison
"Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another."
Kim Harrison
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Roald Dahl
""A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?""
Roald Dahl (The BFG)
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Jack Kerouac
"Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth."
Jack Kerouac
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George Orwell
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. "
George Orwell
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""Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.""
— Joni Mitchel
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Henry A. Wallace
"Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
Henry A. Wallace
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Richard P. Feynman
"I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously… The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is not an attempt to violate any laws; it is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are too big."
Richard P. Feynman
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Henry Miller
"Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world."
Henry Miller
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"When you've gone over something again and again...and again and again...like I have...certain questions get answered. Others spring up! The mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks back! It's like you're unraveling a cable-knit sweater...that someone keeps knitting...and knitting and knitting...and knitting and knitting and knitting!"
Phil Hartman
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"The way the booty goes round and round. www.cityconcierge.com they have all the things you need for you sweet vacation."
Me
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"“All I have to do is cover your big mouth and you’ll be dead, but that would be too easy and too boring” "
— Gaara
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"Someone walking past might think that he was being cruel, making fun of his young son. They would be missing the mark. It wasn't my ability to catch a ball that we were bonding over, it was my ability to catch his sarcasm."
Jack Ferraiolo
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Mitch Albom
"I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go loking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole."
Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)
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"Limiting errors is more important than hitting it big."
— USA Volleyball magazine
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Bob Shea
""We declare you the new mayor!" declares the crowd.

"what about the old mayor?" I'll ask.

"I'm not the one with the big plans!" he'll say."
Bob Shea
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Bob Shea
""WHAT? Maybe you didn't hear exactly how big my plans are? Big enough to be PRESIDENT president!" I'll say.

"But that's my job!" he'll say.
"Look, are you a naysayer?" I'll say.
"Do you say 'NAY'? I say."
"Uh . . . no?" he'll say.

"Then it's settled," I'll say.
"You're third in charge, reporting directly to the mynah bird!""
Bob Shea
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Bob Shea
""Listen up, BIG SHOTS, BIGWIGS, and MUCKETY-MUCKS! What am I dressed for?" I'll ask.
"Success!" they'll yell.
"And what do clothes make?" I'll ask.
"The man!" they'll answer.

Then it should come as no surprise when I say,
"I GOT BIG PLANS! BIG PLANS, I SAY!"

"I'm in!" says the mynah bird."
Bob Shea
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""The universe is only as big as your imagination allows it to be.""
— Rihana Simmons
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"I hate my boobs. THEY'RE TOO BIG!"
— Liz Schuster
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