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The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are accomplished, he wrote to a correspondent, a memorable change must be made in the system of education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. The education of a nation instead of being confined to a few schools and universities for the instruction of the few, must become the national care and expense for the formation of the many.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

The 'music' is not an open court and a fair trial.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

The phenomenal thing that happened to me is that I was able to create two memorable men: one is the ultimate optimist, Rocky, and then you have Rambo, the ultimate pessimist. You're going to always be remembered for them, no matter what you do.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word.  We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune.  The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.