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  • "If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved; if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed."
    - Omar (Muslim caliph, conqueror of Syria, Palestine and Egypt c.581-644) on burning the Library of Alexandria, AD c.641, quoted in Edward Gibbon's "The decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
  • "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
    - P.J. O'Rouke (US author, satirist and journalist. 1947- ) Holidays in Hell, 1989.
  • "All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others."
    - George Orwell (Enlish novelist and journalist. 1903-50). This slogan appears in Orwell's classic, allegorical satire of the Russian Revolution, Animal Farm.
  • "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
    - George Orwell , Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949 .
  • "Napoleon has commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration."
    - George Orwell , Animal Farm.
  • "The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."
    - George Orwell , Why I Write (essay), 1946.
  • "I have very simple taste; I like the best of everything."
    - Oshio (Indian spiritualist.)

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