The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. … We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!

Bourneville believes that 75 per cent. of the inmates of the Parisian venereal hospitals have practised homosexuality.

In the short run, the katsap peril was even more concrete.