At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELLIn philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
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