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In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: Altered Certain Department Discarded Documents Down Governments Hole Idea Inconvenient Memory Ministry News Nineteen Past Propaganda Protagonist Rewritten Smith State Truth Where Winston Works

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The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

~Elizabeth Kenny

Topics: About Almost American Behind Combination Conservatism Department Doctor Eagerness Every Forefront He In My Opinion Know Left May Opinion Order Other Possesses Put Quality Really Science Something States United United States Which

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It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

~Elizabeth Marvel

Topics: Because Been Contract Defense Department Hired Interesting Me Quaker Radical Really

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When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Any Attained Because Between Break Conscience Demands Department Desires Ethical Formula Impossible Individual Inner Law Makes Moral Morality Nature Necessity Needs Outer Physically Society Then Thus True Unity Void

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The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

~Elliot Richardson

Topics: Always Back Being Department End Exciting Going Government Hack Had Hand Idea Might Mind Other Politics State State Department Stayed Up Washington

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The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Airplane Away Being Bomber Closer Complex Department Evidence Far Function Latest Only Piece Should State State Department Taken Terrorism Threat Today Visa Would-Be

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Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Administration After Announce Appointment Been Beginning Days Department East George His Inauguration Middle Middle East Mind Mitchell Obama Peace President State State Department Traveled Two

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I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Asia Assistant Because Bureau Department Directed East East Asia First Had He Him Human Human Rights Kim Korean Life Long Me Met Military Reagan Regime Rights Ruling Secretary State State Department Threatened Whose

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There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

~Elmer Davis

Topics: After Any Anywhere Appeasement Demand Department Experience Get Group Increasing Learned Men Never President Rid Secretary State State Department Ten Ten Years Time Who Worked Years

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The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Ceo Department Design Engineering Marketing Needs Office Path Should Through

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