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"In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the Communist Party. But even this was softened in some later essays. The truth is that he disliked Auden's homosexuality, and could not get over his prejudice. But much of the interest of Orwell lies in the fact that he was born prejudiced, so to speak, against Jews and the coloured peoples of the empire, and against the poor and uneducated, and against women and intellectuals-and managed, in a transparent and unique way, to educate himself out of this fog of bigotry (though he never did get over his aversion to 'pansies')."
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"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."
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"The whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string."
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"There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel."
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"A cowardly critique starts with a compliment."
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"The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard."
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"When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing."
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"In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters."
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"Too much focus on miracles create a beggarly mentality."
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"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing mentality."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
Strength
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Wisdom
"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
Lie
"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
People
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
Soul
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
Education
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
Truth
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
Age
"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
Family
"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."
God
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