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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.

George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Clear Enemy Language Sincere
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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Aeroplane Design Ethics Philosophy Politics Religion
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Against Defense Politics Represent War
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Animal Creature Impossible Man Outside Pig
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War

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