George Orwell

"1Q84," a title suggestive of George Orwell's "1984" as the Japanese word for 9 is pronounced the same as the English letter "Q." "First, there was George Orwell's 1984, a novel about the near future... I wanted to write something that was the opposite of that, a novel on the recent past that shows how things could have been," Murakami said.

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"So long economic collapse," he says,"hello accounting fraud." The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in response to Enron and the like in order to ramp up regulation. Ritholtz quotes Floyd Norris, who writes, "The House Financial Services Committee this week approved an amendment to the Investor Protection Act of 2009 - a name George Orwell would appreciate - to allow most companies to never comply with the law, and mandating a study to see whether it would be a good idea to exempt additional ones as well." Then, Ritholtz points out that the recent "near systemic collapse"

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In response to an interview question from the gaming website IGN about what influenced the game's story and setting, Levine said, "I have my useless liberal arts degree, so I've read stuff from Ayn Rand and George Orwell, and all the sort of utopian and dystopian writings of the 20th century, which I've found really fascinating." Levine has also mentioned an interest in "stem cell research and the moral issues that go around i."

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"The Case for Israel" which cites Peters's book, Dershowitz explicitly denies that he "relies" on Peters for "conclusions or data". In their joint interview on Democracy Now, however, Finkelstein cited specific passages in Dershowitz's book in which a phrase that he says Peters coined was incorrectly attributed to George Orwell: "Peter coins the phrase, 'turnspeak', she says she's using it as a play off of George Orwell which as all listeners know used the phrase 'Newspeak.'

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"If it were a straight parody, I would say 'Good on you.' But this book seems to take rather than give." Reed said: "I think that Orwell, were he still alive, would far rather be with me in my hovel than sitting in some corporate office preparing lawsuits."

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George Orwell once said, "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

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George Orwell noted on the subject that "political chaos is connected with the decay of language."

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In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: "The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare , Swift , Fielding , Dickens , Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills."

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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others", describing theoretical equality in a grossly unequal society. Orwell may have been the first to use the term cold war, in his essay, "You and the Atomic Bomb", published in Tribune, 19 October 1945. He wrote: "We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications;- this is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a State which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbours."

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"Tory-anarchist ". The Spanish Civil War played the most important part in defining Orwell's socialism. He wrote to Cyril Connolly from Barcelona on 8 June 1937: "I have seen wonderful things and at last really believe in Socialism, which I never did before".

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