Common Controls

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or controls:

    The common consolation which some good christian or other, is hourly administering to himself,—that he thanks God his mind does not misgive him; and that, consequently, he has a good conscience, because he has a quiet one,—is fallacious.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)