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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

George Orwell

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Deny Existence Truth
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
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
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Control Future Healing Inspirational Let Go Past Present
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
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
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
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Capital Slave World
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
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
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
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
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Change Destroy Enemy

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