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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.



• "I have very simple taste; I like the best of everything."
  - Oshio (Indian spiritualist.)
  
  

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