"There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom."

-- Rebecca West

#Men Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Doom Quotes

“Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!”
“We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.”
“We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet.”
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
“God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.”
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Source : George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.”
“If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.”

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