“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.”
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“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.”
― Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943
― Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943
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