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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

George Orwell

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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Beauty One Liner Positive Share
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
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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Beat Club Ground Man Police
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Choice Evil Politics
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
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Characteristic Charity Hate Human Nature Man Receive
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hero Inspirational Pain Physical Stop Struggle
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Except Inside Skull
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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Against Clung Mad Truth World
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
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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Giving Love Positive
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Liberty One Liner Power Worship
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
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

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