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Execution Quotes


"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."


"There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague."


"A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution."


"When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution."


"But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all-but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now-this very instant-your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man-and that this is certain, certain!"


"Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing."
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