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• At 50 everyone has the face he deserves. -- George Orwell (1903-1950), "Journals", 1949
• He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill
• Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.
  -- George Norlin .. More: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/norlin.htm...
• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. -- George Santayana
• There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. -- George Orwell
• The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
  ... Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, happened once to meet in the realm of Chaos, the god of the center....
• A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill
  he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity....
• George Orwell was an optimist.