"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedâ€”if all records told the same taleâ€”then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

-- George Orwell

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“In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.”
“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.”
“In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferretâ€™s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”
“I want people to feel good about themselves.”
“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.”
“We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.”

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