To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past

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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ― George Orwell

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They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe. ― Claire Cross, Double Trouble

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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

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Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.― George Orwell

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ― George Orwell

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In the face of pain there are no heroes.― George Orwell

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I don't think in any language. I think in images.

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