But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.― George Orwell

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To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. ― Summer Sanders

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The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness. ― Elizabeth von Arnim

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. ― George Orwell

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

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Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.- Michael Jordan

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A well-sketched picture is worth a thousand words.

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

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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.― George Orwell

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