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Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

-George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

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STOP! Turn off Danger Street and BE HAPPY!

-Some streets and graffiti, Gracia, Barcelona

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TODAY THE GIRLS WIN!

-Slogan for a women's running race, Barcelona

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Not everyone gets to go to Barcelona.

-Francis Picabia, on a t-shirt in a book shop in the old city in Barcelona

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The trouble with quotes taken from the internet is you can never tell whether they're genuine.

-Abraham Lincoln, US President., quoted by Stephen Fry on QI S10 Ep07

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-Warning sign, Schipol Train Station, Amsterdam

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Yes, I'm on Facebook, but right now you have me much closer.

-Sticker at the checkout in a shop, Gracia, Barcelona

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THE BEST MOMENT IS RIGHT NOW

-Name of a shop, Gracia, Barcelona

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Joggers...
What are you running from?

-Chalkboard outside a pub, Baker Street, London

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You truly never know the story of the person walking beside you. I believe if we did we would all be kinder to one another.

-Commentator on Humans of New York, Facebook

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BEFORE IT'S A TREND,
IT'S A SHIFT. BEFORE IT'S A
CHANGE, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY.
AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT,
IT'S GONE.

-Advertisement clipped from the Financial Times in the early 2000s

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I would suggest that our real role as stewards of the Earth is more like that of that proud trades union functionary, the shop steward. We are not managers or masters of the Earth, we are just shop stewards, workers chosen, because of our intelligence, as representatives for the others, the rest of life of our planet. Our union represents the bacteria, the fungi, and the slime moulds, as well as the nouveau riche fish, birds and animals and the landed establishment of noble trees and their lesser plants. Indeed, all living things are members of our union and they are angry at the diabolical liberties taken with their planet and their lives by people...

-James Lovelock, Gaia: The practical science of planetary medicine, p186

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Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each "I," every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.

-Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

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If you can't be nice at least be vague.

-comment on a greetings card

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NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

-Opening to Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

-Charles Bukowski

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