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George Orwell Quote - 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.

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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GEORGE ORWELL

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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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