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George Orwell
"To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder." --
George Orwell
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“And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.”
“Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.”
“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”
Source : Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.216, Pantheon
“Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.”
“Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.”
“Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.”
“Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.”
“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.”