"In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement."

-- George Orwell

#Country Quotes #Russia Quotes #Years Quotes

“Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.”
“I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.”
“You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.”
“In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.”
“The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.”

Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.146, BoD – Books on Demand
“The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;”
“I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.”

Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
“Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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