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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Sanity is not statistical.
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One Liner Sanity Statistics
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Essence Human Inspirational Perfection Seek
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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Argument Finding Protest
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
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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Constant Courage Need Nose Struggle
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Advertisement Media News Print
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Face Forever Future Human Photograph Stamp Want
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Age Follow Politics Rule World
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
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
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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Face Labour Live Miserable
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
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
True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Freedom Hear True Want
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
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Judgement People Thinking Writing

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