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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye