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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

George Orwell

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
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
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Inspirational Negative Positive Reward Thinking
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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Believe Intellectual Normal Person
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
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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Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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Darkness Meet Place
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal

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