"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneÂss while telling carefully constructeÂd lies, to hold simultaneoÂusly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictÂory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy ...."

-- George Orwell

#Honesty Quotes #Lying Quotes #Party Quotes

“I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.”
“using parking meters as walking sticks.”
“Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.”
“I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.”

Source : Denis McDonough's Speech on International Religious Freedom, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 12, 2012.
“People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.”
“Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”
“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
“Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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