“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” – Tom Brokaw
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
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“Give light – and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker
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“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.” – Lincoln Steffens
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75 years ago today, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published for the first time in the UK. This groundbreaking and best-selling novel has...
75 years ago today, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published for the first time in the UK. This groundbreaking and best-selling novel has become a hallowed literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It birthed the incredibly useful term "Orwellian" as an adjective for government without limit, and many terms used throughout the novel are so thoroughly ingrained in the zeitgeist as to be deployed even by politicians themselves, including "Big Brother", "doublethink", "Thought Police", "thoughtcrime", and "Newspeak." READ more about the book and its legacy... (1949)
