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The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
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The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
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If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, I'm a free man in here - he tapped his forehead - and you're all right.
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