If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELLDuring times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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