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George Orwell Quote - Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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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Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
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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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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Book Exhaust Ill Pain Resistance Struggle Writing
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Animal Consume Creature Egg Fast Lord Man Milk Produce Rabbit Run Weak
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Hear Liberty People Want
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Sanity is not statistical.
GEORGE ORWELL

One Liner Sanity Statistics
Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom

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