"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."

-- George Orwell

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“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”
“I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.”
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
“Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.”

Source : "100 Poems Without a Country". Book by Erich Fried, 1978.
“When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.”
“Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.”
“I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.”
“If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.”

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