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All political power is primarily an illusion... Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud, that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

Jimmy Breslin

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Breslin, Jimmy. How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer. Viking Press, 1975, ch. 2.

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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Heywood Broun

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Broun, Heywood. New York World, 6 Feb. 1928.

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Mr. Coolidge's genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It is far from being an indolent activity. It is a grim, determined, alert inactivity which keeps Mr. Coolidge occupied constantly. Nobody has ever worked harder at inactivity, with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task.

Walter Lippmann

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Lippmann, Walter. Men of Destiny. The Macmillan Company, 1927.

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Lippmann, Walter. Men of Destiny. Routledge, 2018.

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As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

Henry Major Tomlinson

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Tomlinson, Henry Major. The Sea and the Jungle. Duckworth & Co., 1912, ch. 1.

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Tomlinson, Henry Major. The Sea and the Jungle. Dover Publications, 2015, ch. 1.

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The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality... That's not the way the world really works anymore.... We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

Ron Suskind

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Suskind, Ron. "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush." The New York Times Magazine, 17 Oct. 2004.

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie...A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack upon morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. "The Art of Donald McGill." Horizon, Sept. 1941.

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Orwell, George. "The Art of Donald McGill." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 27, pt. 4.

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The newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

What Modern Liberty Means

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Lippmann, Walter. "What Modern Liberty Means." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1919.

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What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.

Daniel Goleman

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Goleman, Daniel. "Aristotle's Challenge." Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Bantam Books, 1995.

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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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"If there is hope," he had written in the diary, "it lies in the proles."

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. Review of Letters From India, by Mulk Raj Anand. Tribune, 19 Mar. 1943.

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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 3.

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There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 4.

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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient. The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

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There are only four ways in which a ruling class can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.