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The only good human being is a dead one.

George Orwell

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
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Against Class Country Foreign Happen Profit Thinking War
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Conscious Rebel
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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Character Goodness Possible Test
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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Break Business Inspirational Rule
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
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Beat Human Result Stay Tolerance Worth
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
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Criticism Freedom Oppose Press
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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