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T.S. Eliot
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
T.S. Eliot

George Orwell
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell

C.S. Lewis
“Human life has always been lived on the edge of precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would have never begun. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal.”
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

George Bernard Shaw
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response
George Bernard Shaw

William Morris
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris

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