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Thomas Lotts
The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit, Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line. Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives, [ Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Zionists, Fascists] to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- Politics and the English Language (1946) by George Orwell
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