It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off now than before the Revolution. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different. It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the Party was trying to achieve. Great areas of it, even for a party member, were neutral and nonpolitical, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end. The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.

George Orwell

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

Jack Kilby

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward George BulwerLytton, (spe

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Kong Fu Zi

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Ernest Shackleton

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Sir Edwin Arnold

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Albert Einstein

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

Eric Chaisson

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

Anne M. Mulcahy

He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel that he is The Lord and that they will succeed.

James Dye

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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