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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

George Orwell

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Acceptance Existence Happiness One Liner
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
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
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Essence Human Inspirational Perfection Seek
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
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
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
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
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
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
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull

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