"Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth."

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George Orwell

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“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
“How is it having more control if there are young people stifled the opportunities that we had?”
“Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.”
“Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.”

Source : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, August 31, 1890.
“There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.”

Source : Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com
“The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'”

Source : Helmut Thielicke (1966). “Theological Ethics: Foundations”
“Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.”
“I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.”

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