When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell

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The most effective way to do is to do it. — Amelia Earhart

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

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ― George Orwell

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To be most effective in sales today, it's imperative to drop your 'sales' mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you. - Jill Konrath

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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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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Betty Reese

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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

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

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

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