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“God spare us from men of destiny,”
He was amazed they could be so upbeat amid such carnage. How strange men were.
“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.” Gus smiled. “A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.”
Brave words came easily in the dark. Daylight might tell a different story.
He began to wonder whether overthrowing the government might have been the easy part.
A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.
“The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent—but a president should have it.
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you,
