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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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Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Assume Deep Happiness Life Men Object
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
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Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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Cow Fear Force Government Home Moral Physical
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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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Conservation One Liner Patriotism
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution

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