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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.

George Orwell

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
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
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
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Depth Duty Intelligence Men Obvious Statement
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Hear Liberty People Want
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Nature Quite Time Want
Rich people are poor people with money.
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Money People Poor Rich
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Age Deserve Face Inspirational One Liner
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Goodness Human Quite Time
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Joke One Liner Revolution
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Comment Failure Speak Work
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst

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