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George Orwell Quote - On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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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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