Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
GEORGE ORWELLThe essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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In 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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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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The object of power is power.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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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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