If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949
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It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.
Concerning Divination · 44 BC
Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt · 1905
Touch of Evil · 1958
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
1963 Thanksgiving Day Speech · 1963
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979